On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 08:12:23PM -0400, Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, I have installed xalan. In my ./bashprofile, I have: > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/xsltc.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/BCEL.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/bsf.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/java_cup.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/JLex.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/regexp.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/runtime.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/regexp.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/xalansamples.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/xalanservlet.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/xercesImpl.jar > export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/paul/java/jars/xalan-j_2_3_1/bin/xml-apis.jar > > This gets real tedious. And this is for just one application. > I know with python, for example, you can just tell python to look in one > folder for all the libraries. > Is there a way to do this with java? Is there an easier way to create > the CLASSPATH?
Depends. You can do a couple things: First, write a script to run the application, and have this script set the classpath appropriately. Second, write a .jar that can be run with java -jar example.jar containing all the classes you need. Third, some java libraries can be dropped into a specific location within the JDK (for a blackdown JDK under /usr/local/jdk, this is /usr/local/jdk/jre/lib/ext) and they will be automatically loaded. Fourth, the application itself can load .jar files from a specific location and otherwise manipulate the classpath. Tomcat (the example servlet engine) does this extensively. Typically, you write a script for individual applications, put system libraries and JDBC drivers into the JDK's auto-load location, and use -jar for installation packages. -- Matthew Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
